Patches to libXau

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 2/1/24 09:14, tlaronde at kergis.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 09:07:38AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 2/1/24 08:10, tlaronde at kergis.com wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 04:54:57PM +0100, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 4:09?PM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <
>>>> info at metux.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> have you checked whether it's already on gitlab.freedesktop.org ?
>>>>> In that case just make a PR there ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Indeed, it's there: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxau
>>>
>>> FWIW, I have opened two new issues with the description and the
>>> patches. (It seems I'm unable to fork in order to propose a merge
>>> request.)
>>
>> See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/-/wikis/home
>> to get permission to fork.
> 
> Thanks for the info!
> 
> For small patches like that, what is the preferred way? Issues or, if
> the right is granted, fork and merge requests? (I'm reviewing the
> whole X11 side for tracking bugs with NetBSD, so I will probably
> propose patches for other related projects...).

Merge requests are preferred as they make it clear that a patch is ready
to go in.  Patches attached to issues are too easy to overlook.

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